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California “cooked the books” to justify solar panel mandate
Because California housing isn’t expensive enough. (In large measure because of an over active regulatory system.) But the solar companies will do well. (From The Daily Caller) Steven Sexton, an assistant professor of public policy and economics at Duke University,...
Meanwhile in the Ultimate Crony Capitalist State: Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road
The “belt and road plan” is a colossal works program that will span Asia from Europe to the Pacific. It’s basically a modern day (or post modern day?) Silk Road. Many people will get rich from the initiative and no...
Chinese state-owned firm winning contracts to print foreign currencies as country seeks to expand global reach and influence
This appears to be a works program/diplomacy initiative/monetary power play. Money factories in China are running overtime printing paper currencies for Nepal, Thailand, India, Brazil, even Poland. A strange deal.
West Virginia House Considers Impeaching Entire State Supreme Court
The entire court.
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US Judge Rejects Russian Company’s Bid to Dismiss Mueller Charges
(From The Hill) A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected an effort by a Russian company to get charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller dismissed. U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by President Trump, on...
FBI Fires FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok
(From Politico) “According to Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, an internal disciplinary review had recommended Strzok’s demotion and a 60-day suspension. But Goelman said Monday that the deputy director of the FBI overruled that determination and decided to fire him.” Click...
Mexican Radio to Beam Chinese Propaganda (?)
(From The Washington Examiner) A large Spanish-language radio station in Mexico will soon begin broadcasting in Chinese in a deal critics say will bring Beijing propaganda to Chinese Americans throughout Southern California. A Federal Communications Commission filing on the sale...
120 Afghan Forces, Civilians Killed in Battle with Taliban
(From AP News) Four days of ferocious fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban over a key provincial capital has claimed the lives of about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers and at least 20 civilians, the defense minister said Monday....
World Stocks Hit One-Month Low as Turkish Rout Spreads
(From Reuters) World markets shuddered on Monday, as Turkey’s worsening currency crisis persuaded investors to dump equities and emerging markets and flee to safer assets such as government bonds and the dollar. The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares...
Iran Will Not Change Regional Policies under US Threats: Foreign Minister
(From Reuters) Iran will not rein in its influence in the Middle East despite mounting U.S. pressure on Tehran to curb its regional activities, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV. “Iran will not change its policies...
PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka Holds Off Tiger Woods for Win
(From UPI) Brooks Koepka shot a 4-under-par 66 on Sunday at Bellerive Country Club to win the PGA Championship, his second major championship victory this year and third ever. Koepka also won the 2018 U.S. Open, joining Jack Nicklaus, Ben...
Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not
(From AP News) An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton...
Counterprotesters Outnumber “Unite the Right 2” White Nationalists in DC
(From USA Today) Thousands of counterprotesters heavily outnumbered a small group of white nationalists holding a “Unite the Right 2” rally Sunday, a day that was largely peaceful but marked by a few confrontations on the streets of the nation’s...
Baltimore Police Officer Who Beat Man in Viral Video Resigns
(From USA Today) Baltimore Police Department’s Interim Commissioner Gary Tuggle accepted the officer’s resignation, and a second officer remains off patrol, on administrative duties, the department said Sunday. The department has not named the officers involved. The investigation is ongoing....
Russia to Continue Slashing US Bond Holdings, May Stop Payments in Dollars
(From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty) Russia’s finance minister says his country will continue to reduce investments in U.S. government bonds and may stop making global payments in dollars in response to new sanctions being imposed by Washington against Moscow. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov...
4 Jordanian Troops, 3 Suspected Militants Dead in Clash
(From AP News) Jordanian search teams pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their hideout, a government official said Sunday, hours after assailants opened fire and set off explosions that killed four members of the security...
Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop (June 1967) – A slice of pop music history every music lover should see (VIDEO)
Shanti. Shanti. The Monterey Pop Festival was one of those nodes of pop culture that emerge every once in a while to change the world. And Ravi Shankar’s performance at the festival was part of the reason the world...
After Planting a Tree Every Day for 40 Years, Man Has Created Blossoming Forest on Barren Wasteland (VIDEO)
(From Good News Network) He started with simple botanical powerhouses, such as bamboo and cottonwood. After almost four decades of growth, his forest is now inhabited by hundreds of elephants, Bengal tigers, rhinos, boars, deer, reptiles, and birds. Click...
Terrified horse was ‘skin and bones.’ Then a dog named Molly made friends, NC rescuer says
Golden retrievers are pretty great dogs.
What Walter Carr, the young man who walked 20 miles to work, taught me this week
(From Fox News) Carr’s grit is obvious enough, but legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden said the true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching. Surely a young man who sets out alone...
